SHEPARD, LOUIS C. - Medal of Honor Recipient

Citation: Served as seaman
on board the U.S.S. Wabash in the assault on Fort Fisher, 15 January 1865.
Advancing gallantly through severe enemy fire while armed only with a revolver
and cutlass which made it impossible to return the fire at that range,
Shepard succeeded in reaching the angle of the fort and in going on, to
be one of the few who entered the fort. When the rest of the body of men
to his rear were forced to retreat under a devastating fire, he was forced
to withdraw through lack of support and to seek the shelter of one of the
mounds near the stockade from which point he succeeded in regaining the
safety of his ship.

This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)